Advance Fee Fraud: Akimo Danjuma

Just a very traditional-looking 419 to report at the moment, where "tradition" involves the use of all capital letters, among other things. Received from 62.37.236.185 (smtp.latinmail.com.) on Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:10:03 -0000, this appears to use the popular "webmail" vector for delivery -- specifically "webmail.wanadoo.es." in this case. And, given that it was sent to the contact address for this blog, I assume the address was obtained using web-based address harvesting techniques, which is also typical.

FROM THE DESK OF BARR.AKIMO DANJUMA
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT
UNION BANK PLC
MARIN HOUSE LAGOS NIGERIA

DEAR FRIEND,

I AM BARR. AKIMO DANJUMA, AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC. THIS MAIL MIGHT COME IN AS A SURPRISE TO YOU SINCE I DO NOT KNOW YOU AND YOU DO NOT KNOW ME,BUT I HAVE A PROPOSAL TO PUT BEFORE YOU.BEFORE I PROCEED, I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN SOME R= ELEVANT FACTS TO YOU.BEFORE THIS MAIL GOT TO YOU, WE (MYSELF AND MY PARTNERS) HAVE SENT OUT SEVERAL PROPOSALS OF THIS NATURE TO FOREIGNERS,(NON AFRICANS) BUT WE RECIEVED NEGATIVE RESPONSES.
SO WE TOOK IT UPON OURSELVES TO CARRY OUT INVESTIGATIONS WHY THIS WAS SO.UPON OUR INVESTIGATIONS, WE FOUND OUT THAT CERTAIN JUNIOR OFFICIALS OF THIS BANK HAD GOTTEN WIND OF THIS PROPOSAL AND WERE USING IT TO SWINDLE PEOPLE OF THEIR MONEY WITHOUT SUCESSFULLY FUFILLING THE REAL AIM OF THE TRANSACTION. WE THEN SWUNG INTO ACTION AND HAVE TAKEN ANOTHER STEP TO ENSURE THAT THIS ACT IS STOPPED AND ONLY GENUINE OFFICIALS CAPABLE OF EXECUTING A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE TO A SUCCESSFULL CONCLUSION WERE SELECTED. WE THUS TRANSFERED THE FUNDS INTO A FINANCE HOUSE/SECURITY FIRM IN EUROPE AFFILIATED TO THIS BANK. NOW THE PROPOSAL IS THUS:OUR BANK IS MOSTLY PATRONISED BY FOREIGNERS AND EXPERTRAITS BECAUSE OF OUR ABILTY TO BE DISCRETE AND SECRETIVE. FROM OCTOBER I994 TO DATE, WE HAVE LOST EIGHT CLIENTS(DECEASED) AND FROM THESE EIGHT ONLY FOUR NEXT OF KINS HAVE TURNED UP TO LAY CLAIMS ON THE ENTITLEMENTS OF FOUR OF THESE CLIENTS. OUR POLICY, IS TO SEND SEVERAL MESSAGES TO THE EMBASSIES AND HIGH COMMISSIONS FROM WHERE OUR CLIENTS ARE NATIONALISED TO NOTIFY ALL NEXT OF KIN ABOUT THEIR DECEASED RELATIVES FUNDS IN OUR POSSESSION. AMONG THE REMAINING FOUR DECEASED CLIENTS, ONE IN PARTICULAR DID NOT LEAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HIS NEXT OF KIN. HE IS A FOREGNER, AND HE LEFT IN OUR BANKS POSSESSION A SUM OF $15,000,000 ($15MILLIONU.DOLLARS). WE HAVE SENT SEVERAL MESSAGES TO THIS HOME AUTHORITIES TO SOURCE FOR HIS NEXT OF KIN OR ANY OF HIS RELATIVES AND ALL EFFORTS HAVE PROVED ABORTIVE. RECENTLY, WE GOT WIND OF INFORMATION THATTHE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA ARE MAKING PLANS TO CONFISTICATE THIS MONEY AND MAY BE SOME OF THEIR TOP OFFICIALS COULD SIT ON THIS MONEY. THIS WAS WHERE WE TOOK IT UPON OURSELVES TO TRANSFER THIS FUNDS TO ONE OF OUR AFFILIATES IN EUROPE. AS YOU RECIEVE THIS MAIL AND ARE READING IT, THE FUND IS IN THIS FINANCE HOUSE IN EUROPE AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE SOURCING FOR A RELIABLE AND TRUST WORTHY PERSON TO ASSIST US IN CLAIMING THIS FUND UNDER THE GUISE OF BEING THEN NEXT OF KIN TO OUR DECEASED CLIENT. ALL YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO IS TO LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE INTERESTED AND I WILL FURNISH YOU WITH ALL THE REQUIRED
DOCUMENTS THAT YOU NEED TO OBTAIN THIS FUND, YOUR SHARE OF THIS MONEY WILL BE 40% YOU ARE TO KEEP THIS TRANSACTION SOLELY TO YOUR SELF ALONE.
PLEASE,REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS:chbzokoro@box.az

BEST REGARDS.
BARR.AKIMO DANJUMA